It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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